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OPPOSITIONIST SAYS GEORGIAN EX-PRESIDENT TO BECOME MOLDOVA'S NEW PREMIER

21 july, 2015

Georgia's former president and the current governor of Ukraine's Odessa Region, Mikheil Saakashvili, will become Moldova's new prime minister, the leader of [Moldova's opposition pro-Russian] Our Party, Renato Usatii, wrote today on a social networking website.

In a video clip filmed in Moscow and posted on Facebook, Usatii, who has been recently elected mayor of Moldova's second largest city of Balti, said that he “found out a few interesting things that I want to share with you as quickly as possible”.

"I have found out that the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM), Vlad Filat, used not only the PLDM's funds to pay a US company for his PR campaign for elections. In addition, lawmaker Nicolae Juravschi will quit the PLDM parliamentary faction today. And the last piece of news: the prime minister of the new government, whose formation is now being discussed by the leaders of the three [pro-European] parties, will be Mikheil Saakashvili. This kind of agreement with him has already been reached. The issue has also been agreed with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko," Usatii said.

Usatii also promised to stage soon "the largest protest rally in the history of Moldova" to "discuss the recent significant increase in electricity and gas rates [by 37 and 15 per cent, respectively], and, most importantly, the right to nominate Mikheil Saakashvili to the post of prime minister”.

Later today, Usatii posted on Facebook a document reportedly confirming that Vlad Filat paid 51,000 dollars to a US company.

Also today, Nicolae Juravschi wrote on Facebook that he quit the PLDM and its parliamentary faction because of disagreements with the policy pursued by the party and its leaders.

It was reported earlier by Infotag that PLDM leader Vlad Filat and Odessa Region governor Mikheil Saakashvili have been good friends since the former was the prime minister of Moldova and the latter the president of Georgia. In 2014, they both went to Kiev to support Euro-Maydan activists. The media reported that Filat visited Odessa on July 4-5 and met Saakashvili there. Several days later, Filat went to Croatia to meet US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. No details about these meetings have been made available so far. Some analysts said that during these visits Filat tried to secure, with the help of Saakashvili, the USA's support to be nominated again as prime minister. Filat was the prime minister of Moldova between 2009 and 2013, when he was dismissed on corruption charges.

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